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A third of all Hong Kong’s licensed ivory retailers have actively encouraged buyers to smuggle ivory out of the city without an export permit, which is illegal under the city’s laws, a new report by the wildlife trade monitor Traffic has revealed. ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Thomson Reuters Foundation ... Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit news.trust.org to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks edged lower in thin trading on Friday, as investors took to the sidelines ahead of the first round of a tight French presidential election on Sunday. Both the benchmark Hang Seng index and the China Enterprises Index lost 0.1 per cent at ... ( read original story ...)

THESE incredible pictures show Hong Kong from a whole new angle. French snapper Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze caught the Asian metropolis’ high-rise lifestyle with a series of stunning shots taken from the ground directly upwards. Romain was so taken aback by ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong King of Robbers Yip Kai-foon has died at the age of 55. He was certified dead at 1.02am on April 19 at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. This was confirmed by a press release from the Hong Kong Correctional Services. Yip was serving ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Underscoring Hong ... To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hkstp-welcomes-maz-world-to-hong-kongs-vibrant-ecosystem-to-commercialise-revolutionary-ostrich ... ( read original story ...)

Founded in 1993, i-Cable operates a 24-hour Cantonese-language news network in Hong Kong, and has received plaudits for its investigative journalism in Hong Kong and mainland China. But the channel’s future came into question last month after its parent ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: Hong Kong plans to toughen information security rules after a series of embarrassing hacks at the city's brokers, the securities regulator said on April 20. The draft rules would likely include requirements for two-step authentication for ... ( read original story ...)

Yick said the government’s proposal to put an additional 600 franchised taxis from three operators on Hong Kong roads would create unfair competition and put cabbies’ livelihood at risk. Representatives from the taxi industry and the pro-establishment ... ( read original story ...)

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying led a high-powered delegation to Guangdong on Wednesday with one thing on his mind: fitting Hong Kong into Beijing’s “Greater Bay Area” integration scheme for the Pearl River Delta. As he began the three-day visit he ... ( read original story ...)

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist, has launched an attack on eroding freedoms in Hong Kong after he was refused a bank account at HSBC in the former British colony. The burly artist, who is a constant thorn in the side of Beijing’s Communist Party ... ( read original story ...)

The boy, surnamed Ho, escaped from Hong Kong Student Aid Society’s Island Hostel at Shek Pik, where he had lived for the past six months. His mother alerted Lantau police that day and said her son might have headed towards the Kwai Fong area, Langham ... ( read original story ...)

OUR TURN. Marcus Elliott's scorching second quarter helped Hong Kong withstand his third quarter ejection. Game 2 wasn’t going to be like Game 1 of the 2016-2017 Asean Basketball League Finals. Josh Boone, Marcus Elliott, and, in the endgame, the Hong ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong should expand the types of listed structured products to maintain the competitiveness as a world-leading listed structured products marketplace, the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) of the Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)